Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blasted CBS for “shamefully” editing out information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia‘s alleged criminal history during her interview on its program Face the Nation.

Noem’s interview on Sunday included a brief segment on Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration to his native country before being brought back to the United States on human smuggling charges. In it, she addressed the recent developments in the legal saga, including his potential deportation to Uganda, which has set itself up as third country for deportations, even as the criminal case plays out in court.

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While making clear that Abrego Garcia will never be released into the U.S. again due to him residing in the country illegally for over a decade, Noem also repeated the allegations of his MS-13 gang membership, human smuggling, and that he abused his wife, all of which CBS chose not to air.

Instead, the interview cuts off just before, with guest host Ed O’Keefe proceeding to ask Noem about the administration’s push to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda.

Noem’s comments on Abrego Garcia’s alleged extensive criminal history, however, do appear in a transcript released by the network, though with an editor’s note qualifying them that says, “Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been charged with two counts of human smuggling and has pleaded not guilty. He is currently in ICE detention pending trial. He has not been charged with any counts related to child abuse.”

CBS also released the full, unedited interview on YouTube hours before Noem attacked the network for attempting to “whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.”

Noem’s targeting of CBS follows President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for the network, along with others, to lose its broadcasting license.

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That reached a fever pitch during the 2024 presidential campaign, when CBS’s 60 Minutes conducted an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, one in which she fumbled over a question on the Israel-Gaza war but that was subsequently edited for time purposes.

Trump accused 60 Minutes of deceptively editing it in Harris’s favor and later sued CBS, a lawsuit that was settled earlier this summer.